Chun-Kit Ngan
Dr. Chun-Kit Ngan is an Associate Teaching Professor of Data Science Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) since January 2018. Before joining WPI, he was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Engineering and Information Science at the Pennsylvania State University-Great Valley (PSU-GV). His research interests are Decision Guidance and Support Systems (DGSS), including Decision Optimization Models, Computational Algorithms, Machine/Deep Learning, Data Analytics and Visualization, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and related DGSS Applications, to guide domain-specific decision makers to make better decisions and provide them with actionable recommendations. He has published over 35 articles in various books, journals, and conferences. He received the Best Paper Award and the Best Student Paper Award at the 2013 and 2011 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems respectively. His co-authored paper was selected as the Best Presentation Award in the Information Theory and Technology Session at the 2019 International Conference on Information System and Data Mining. He was the recipient of the 2013-2014 Seed Money Research Grant and 2015-2016 Early Career Award for Research and Scholarship Excellence at PSU-GV. He is also (1) the Co-PI of the funded 2019-2024 NSF REU Site Data Science for Healthy Communities in the Digital Age at WPI, (2) the Co-PI of Developing a Prognostic Model to Predict Inter-individual Trajectory of Functional Outcomes in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer funded by Hong Kong Research Grants Council in 2022-2023, (3) the PI of the AI-based approach for Detecting Anomalies Over Time-Based and Multimodal Vibration Data funded by Xtra Sensing Limited in 2023 and 2024, (4) the PI of the AI-based approach for Supporting Visually Impaired and Blind People funded by InnoSpire Technology Limited in Spring 2023, and (5) the PI of the Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) for Pediatric Hypertension project in Spring 2022, the AI-based methodology for driving the medication instruction parsing (Meg Sig) in 2023, and the AI-based Approach for Cleaning Healthcare Data Record in 2024 funded by Availity, respectively. The CDSS project team has won the first runner-up prize of the Student Poster Contest at the 2022 New England HIMSS Annual Spring Conference. In Summer 2022, he joined Microsoft Corporation as a Visiting College Educator. He is also a 2023 and 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Reviewer in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. Other DGSS-related research projects have been technically supported by Microsoft Corporation, Vodafone GmbH and John Snow Labs, Inc. Publications: (1) ResearchGate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chun-Kit-Ngan and (2) Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=CaNoXysAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&alert_preview_top_rm=2&sortby=pubdate.